republic-os/legislation/us/states/co/2023a/sb-23-034.md

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Bill	Definition Of Serious Bodily Injury	The act expands the definition of "serious bodily injury" in the criminal code to include penetrating gunshot wounds and penetrating knife wounds.	us/states/co	Colorado General Assembly	2023A	SB 23-034	Colorado SB 23-034 (2023A)	bill		enacted	Barbara McLachlan Byron Pelton Gabe Evans Rhonda Fields	10	15	4	2023-01-10T07:00:00+00:00	2023-06-02T06:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/8291a27d-31af-46b2-9b05-6439adf7480d	https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb23-034	d86f24b2ca8edcb670612b59297abd05d98e8a9f6795e701d97750da4147f337	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-co

Colorado SB 23-034 (2023A) — Definition Of Serious Bodily Injury

The act expands the definition of "serious bodily injury" in the criminal code to include penetrating gunshot wounds and penetrating knife wounds.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Committee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed (02/09/2023) (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Act (05/15/2023) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced (01/10/2023) (committee substitute) — source
5. PA1 (02/07/2023) (committee substitute) — source
6. PA2 (04/28/2023) (committee substitute) — source
7. Reengrossed (02/10/2023) (committee substitute) — source
8. Rerevised (05/06/2023) (committee substitute) — source
9. Revised (05/03/2023) (committee substitute) — source
10. Signed Act (06/02/2023) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• BILL — 47–17 (pass) · lower
• CONCUR — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• REPASS — 34–1 (pass) · upper
• BILL — 32–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Barbara McLachlan — primary (person)
• Byron Pelton — primary (person)
• Gabe Evans — primary (person)
• Rhonda Fields — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2023-06-02T06:00:00+00:00 Governor Signed executive-signature
• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Sent to the Governor executive-receipt
• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the Speaker of the House
• 2023-05-15T06:00:00+00:00 Signed by the President of the Senate
• 2023-05-08T06:00:00+00:00 Senate Considered House Amendments - Result was to Concur - Repass
• 2023-05-06T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-05-04T06:00:00+00:00 House Third Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-05-03T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Special Order - Passed with Amendments - Floor
• 2023-05-02T06:00:00+00:00 House Second Reading Laid Over Daily - No Amendments
• 2023-04-27T06:00:00+00:00 House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-02-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In House - Assigned to Judiciary introduction
• 2023-02-10T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-09T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Second Reading Passed with Amendments - Committee reading-2
• 2023-02-06T07:00:00+00:00 Senate Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to Senate Committee of the Whole committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-01-10T07:00:00+00:00 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8291a27d-31af-46b2-9b05-6439adf7480d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Colorado legislature records).